Smyrna times., 1887-03-16
COUNTY and State Items

A volunteer fire company has bee
organized at Delaware City with merr
bership of thirty.
About 125 conversions are reporte
thus far at the M. +. Church, of Middle
town, and the good work still continues
Robert Davis and family arrived i
Milford last week from Japan, where
he has been for ten years in the Mission
ary service of the NJ. L. Church.
Bishop Lee, of Delaware, the sen
ior Bishop of the Protestant Episcopa
church in the United States, is reporteC
to be seriously ill. He is in his SOtl
year of his age.
Stockly Daniels near Townsend soil
out his stock and farming utensils OF
Thursday ut private sale, to William e
Riley, and he is to take the farm thai
Mr. Daniels now occupies.
Lewes has been made a port of cal
by act of Congress, and hereafter vessel.
arriving at the Breakwater will be visi.
te by customs boarding officer. wbo
will seal the matches and af1ix a stamr
thereon.
A gentleman who lives near Middle
town, and who, by the way, is noted for
his thrifty farming, grows every year
from $3.50 toS3OO worth of asparagus off
of ,! acres of land, and this with but
very little outlay
\ petition is in circulation among the
attorneys in Wilmington to Governor
Biggs asking him to appoint Alfred p.
Robinson nOfGeOTgetOwn associate Judge
of the Superior Court TO succeed Judge
WOotten, deceased.
Eva Anita, infant daughter of ofThomas
n and Ida G.. Williams died suddenly
on Wednesday last of paralysis of the
heart, aged about eight months. The
interment was made in Wilmington and
Brandywne cemetery.
St. Georges Hundred has not paid
in single dollar of her taxes vet for
1867, and still owes some $4,000 for
the years 1856. How much longer
does the Levy Court intend to pet this
spoiled child?-Republican.
Mr. +. Hanson Howell. of Camden
and Miss Lizzie NJ. Shepherd, of Leban-
on, ware married at the residence Ofthe
brides mother, in the latter place ,at 8
o'clock Wednesday morning, by the
Rev. Z. H. HynsOn, of Camden.
Mrs. Harriet White died at Odessa on
last Wednesday, aged 80 years. She was
buried on Saturday in the churchvard
at Drawyer's Church. Mrs. White was
the mother of Mrs. Curtis S. Watson Of
Milford and Mrs. S. Z. Polk of Odessa.
Mr.. Thomas Hanson, of Rising Sun.
has valuable brown horse for which
he paid $500 few months since. that
nearly ruined itself on Tuesday morn
ing by running into a barbedwire fence
which neighbOI had been kind enough
10 erect.
Georgetown was the scene of a con
Migration on Thursday morning caused |
BY the stOrehOuse of Eugene Jacobs |
being in flames. Mr. Jacobs estimates |
his loss at 81 100. The house was in /
iured for $500 in ihe American Company |
md the goods for 81 900 in the Farmers
Mutual.
COulbOurn's cheese factory, situated
IN A. COulbOurn's farm, q short distan-
e south of Delaware City on the road
% Port Penn, was destroyed by fire on
Thursday night. Loss $2,5OO. Incen-
iiarism is suspected, as there had been
10 fire in the building for ten hours pre-
IiOus to the cOnhagration.
1t is said that 25 900 people attended
church services in Wilmington last Sun
lay. The Rev. b. Fay Mills, the New
england Evangelist, who is conducting
evival services under the direction of
he United Presbyterian churches,
Preached in the Opera House both after
OOn and evening to large audiences.
The General Assembly has finished
Is tenth week Ofthe session according
0 the demOralizing fashion, introduced
nd promoted by modern improvements
D travel and free railroad passes, ofad-
burning from Friday morning to Mon
ay, the weeks for work consist on the
verage of three full days, although for
ay they consist of seven.
Reese +. Bell, of Wilmington, who
ecently returned from North Carolina
ghere he had gone for the benefit of
is health, was attacked with hemOr-
hages on Saturday, and although seri-
Gsiy i'll, his physician, DIR. J. Paul
.ukens, hopes to pull him through.
Ir. Bell, when attacked, was arranging
D remove with his family to western
forth Carolina, where he desires TO go
ltO the lumber business.
The bill to incorporate the colOred
chools of Dover which Mr.. Jones has
Introduced on Monday, isa new depar-
ure among the cOiOred brethren and
stride in favor of the district system
Or which the most intelligent cOlOred
nen have so long cOntended. The bill
proposes to make Dover district by
tseif, the radius being limited to the
erritOry surrounding the town one mile
ach way. The district is to elect its
wn board OfschOOl commissioners, who
hall have power to levy the necessary
AK to carry on the schools and enforce
IS collection.
We saw the other day the statement
hat the railroad charged II cents for
arrying "A basket of peaches from Del
ware to New York city. fit was not
or the railroad the price for carrying
,asket Ofpeaches from this state to New
York city would be among the dollars
instead Of among the cents. The fact
nav we'll be remembered for what it is
worth and it is unquestiOnably worth
! good deal. Our railroads are not
pigeons to be plucked, or carriers of
merchandise to be "held up" on the
highway. They are great and whole
iOme elements Of our business growth
md social intelligence--MOrning Ne'0s.
In the RIVER aud Harbor and the De-
iciency Appropriation bills which failed
lf enactment, for want of the Presi-
tent's signature there was an apprOpri-
alton Of $4,000 for the proposed canal
between ChincOteague and Assawaman |
bays. which Of course failed with the |
1ther items. There Is however an ap-
Of SIS, $50, made at a pre-
Gious Congress which will be available |
IS soon as the right Of way Is secured.
An effort will be made at the next Con-
gress to increase this amount. The
failure Ofthe $4,000 appropriation at
this time need not affect the action of
lhe Legislature in appointing com
Aittee to assess damages along me
route ofthe canal.
The season OF 1887 promises to ~ w
commencement Of n new era for lt"h"
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